In 1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. This one decade, bookended by those two historical events, transformed Europe and the world: the application of TCP and IP protocols gave rise to virtual communication networks and the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama speculated that &#x201C;the end of history&#x201D; had arrived. The 1980s witnessed changes in the practice of photography too, with photographers sensing the end of industrial society and striving to adapt to the onset of globalization&#x2015;an evolution traced in this volume. Including works by Chris Killip, Graham Smith, Martin Parr, Jean Marc Bustamante, Candida H&#xF6;fer, Axel H&#xFC;tte, Tata Ronkholz, Thomas Ruff, Frank Breuer, Wilhelm Sch&#xFC;rmann, Boris Mikhailov, Sergey Chilikov, Heinrich Riebesehl and Josef Koudelka, among others, <ITransiciones: 10 Years that Transformed Europe[/I] explores the photography of this pivotal decade.